on September 24, 2013
When I say no vendors I mean there were no merchants selling food after the first week. You could donate for supplies or educational literature and sometimes purchase homemade T-shirts but in general, a non-commercial environment existed. All food and supplies including two port-a-potty areas came from outside donations.
The 'no games' tag here applies both to the gambling games of chance, and the games people play. At times like a giant carnival where everyone has a role, there was a family feel to the whole park but it was never a party, though there were celebrations. The people and the place had a special synergy that was fraught with a political agenda to create a role model for how a really free uncorrupted democratic society could work and should work. In a way that might seem ironic to some classicist activists, Burning Man actually prepared me mentally for the Occupy experience, a shared opinion recently validated.
In the first month and a half, the Occupy camp gathering in LA seemed blessed and felt like the most Christian non-Christian event to happen in a long time. Mary Jane was all over camp. At first the campers were encouraged by the General Assembly protocol talking heads to puff/medicate inside their tents so as not to send a message of 'partying' to the press. This policy was opposed by a majority of campers including me, who openly expressed that the movement is about a revolution and Mary Jane is our Jane of Arc. 'A rebellion within the revolution, heh, heh.' - Bender (laugh)
Soon, 'open smoking' of pot was ensued as a choice for campers. The police officers who formed a ring around the perimeter and those who patrolled the beat around the park did not come inside the camp. The two or three officers who patrolled inside the camp paid no mind to anyone smoking, pot or cigarettes. Occupy LA became its own little reservation of sovereignty. Mary Jane enjoyed full freedom and the Regulate Marijuana Like Wine booth was doing a brisk petition signing at first until 'someone' with the knowledge of the Soros/ Monsanto/DPA connection to funding the RMLW movement made that association public knowledge via the very efficient camp grapevine.
The last half of November Mary Jane helped with the depression that hit camp when forward progress for the movement stalled. The city offered a vacant building complete with utilities and Wi-Fi for a dollar a year lease. Access was limited to daylight-evening business hours but a new camp site 'would be found for the occupiers', the city said.
OLA wanted to remain on the original city hall site at the foot of the renowned Daily Planet building; take over the old vacant city hall foundation lot across the street to grow food for the entire camp by cleaning up the flooded underground three-story attached parking garage for the water filtration system to sustain food growth; and/or annex the large city park area in Chinatown as an Occupy settlement. Occupy LA would reseed the city hall lawn after resettlement. The idea was to show that people in the city can be self-sustainable if given the chance. None of this Occupy agenda made any press outside of the Temecula Calendar.
A deal might have been struck but the city refused to stop the sale or return the land that was given to three hundred and fifty Mexican families for their farming use in LA by politicians in the '80s, see www.savethefarmmovie.com. The South Central Community Garden Association aligned themselves with the Occupy Los Angeles movement prior to their city council meeting. Having had a sustainable urban farm for almost two decades in a heavily industrialized south central area of LA, the ideals and goals of the family farm group fit directly in with the Occupy philosophy and the details of the farm dilemma were known to many local occupiers.
Occupy LA voted to stand with the SCA so when the farmers' salad got tossed, OLA refused the deal on the building. Though that offered deal could have extended the life of Occupy LA, I met no one in camp who thought that we should have taken the deal. Outside of camp, to those who had no knowledge of the South Central predicament, the offer refusal appeared arrogant without 'a leader' to elucidate. That was the image fanned like a bad fart in a crowded room by some wags in the press.
The general press/TV media played the 'walking head shot' news angle like it was a Facebook moment, but what they all missed was that Occupy was and is a general 'wildcat strike' complete with picket signs (which were ignored on purpose?) by society against the globalization of Capitalism. The reason for the strike is the word 'civilian' has been replaced by the word 'consumer' and that is being replaced by the word 'subject' thanks to Citizens United. - end part 12
The 'no games' tag here applies both to the gambling games of chance, and the games people play. At times like a giant carnival where everyone has a role, there was a family feel to the whole park but it was never a party, though there were celebrations. The people and the place had a special synergy that was fraught with a political agenda to create a role model for how a really free uncorrupted democratic society could work and should work. In a way that might seem ironic to some classicist activists, Burning Man actually prepared me mentally for the Occupy experience, a shared opinion recently validated.
In the first month and a half, the Occupy camp gathering in LA seemed blessed and felt like the most Christian non-Christian event to happen in a long time. Mary Jane was all over camp. At first the campers were encouraged by the General Assembly protocol talking heads to puff/medicate inside their tents so as not to send a message of 'partying' to the press. This policy was opposed by a majority of campers including me, who openly expressed that the movement is about a revolution and Mary Jane is our Jane of Arc. 'A rebellion within the revolution, heh, heh.' - Bender (laugh)
Soon, 'open smoking' of pot was ensued as a choice for campers. The police officers who formed a ring around the perimeter and those who patrolled the beat around the park did not come inside the camp. The two or three officers who patrolled inside the camp paid no mind to anyone smoking, pot or cigarettes. Occupy LA became its own little reservation of sovereignty. Mary Jane enjoyed full freedom and the Regulate Marijuana Like Wine booth was doing a brisk petition signing at first until 'someone' with the knowledge of the Soros/ Monsanto/DPA connection to funding the RMLW movement made that association public knowledge via the very efficient camp grapevine.
The last half of November Mary Jane helped with the depression that hit camp when forward progress for the movement stalled. The city offered a vacant building complete with utilities and Wi-Fi for a dollar a year lease. Access was limited to daylight-evening business hours but a new camp site 'would be found for the occupiers', the city said.
OLA wanted to remain on the original city hall site at the foot of the renowned Daily Planet building; take over the old vacant city hall foundation lot across the street to grow food for the entire camp by cleaning up the flooded underground three-story attached parking garage for the water filtration system to sustain food growth; and/or annex the large city park area in Chinatown as an Occupy settlement. Occupy LA would reseed the city hall lawn after resettlement. The idea was to show that people in the city can be self-sustainable if given the chance. None of this Occupy agenda made any press outside of the Temecula Calendar.
A deal might have been struck but the city refused to stop the sale or return the land that was given to three hundred and fifty Mexican families for their farming use in LA by politicians in the '80s, see www.savethefarmmovie.com. The South Central Community Garden Association aligned themselves with the Occupy Los Angeles movement prior to their city council meeting. Having had a sustainable urban farm for almost two decades in a heavily industrialized south central area of LA, the ideals and goals of the family farm group fit directly in with the Occupy philosophy and the details of the farm dilemma were known to many local occupiers.
Occupy LA voted to stand with the SCA so when the farmers' salad got tossed, OLA refused the deal on the building. Though that offered deal could have extended the life of Occupy LA, I met no one in camp who thought that we should have taken the deal. Outside of camp, to those who had no knowledge of the South Central predicament, the offer refusal appeared arrogant without 'a leader' to elucidate. That was the image fanned like a bad fart in a crowded room by some wags in the press.
The general press/TV media played the 'walking head shot' news angle like it was a Facebook moment, but what they all missed was that Occupy was and is a general 'wildcat strike' complete with picket signs (which were ignored on purpose?) by society against the globalization of Capitalism. The reason for the strike is the word 'civilian' has been replaced by the word 'consumer' and that is being replaced by the word 'subject' thanks to Citizens United. - end part 12
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